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Memorial Day weekend 1987, Starlog Magazine held the first-ever Star Wars Convention for it’s 10th Anniversary. The official title was, “Starlog Salutes Star Wars–A 10th Anniversary Tribute to George Lucas and the Galaxy Far, Far Away Which He Created!” Personally, I prefer my title – Star Wars Celebration 0.

The convention was going to take place in that far, far away land known as Los Angeles. As a teenager living in Boston, MA at the time it was going to be difficult to get myself all the way across the country. I had missed weddings, family reunions and court dates but I was not going to miss this!

Starlog Magazine began to list confirmed Celebrity guests. The closest I ever got to meet anyone associated with a Star Wars film was when I met Star Wars producer Gary Kurtz’s wife at Bos-Con in 1985. Now here was an opportunity to see in-person Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, Billy Dee Williams, Ralph McQuarrie and George Lucas himself!

Check out a first look at the final boxed/carded and loose look at Boba Fett, Garazeb Orrelios and General Grievous from the new Hero Mashers line we first saw this past February at New York Toy Fair! They are set to hit the pegs this Fall!

Each day of Celebration, successful participants in one of the fun and easy games at the club’s booth in the main Exhibit Hall will be rewarded with a sealed pack containing nine cards. A different pack of cards will be available each day of Celebration – visitors to their booth all four days of Celebration will have a chance to get all four packs. “But wait,” you say, “that only adds up to 36 cards!” Obtaining the four remaining “chase” cards will be slightly more complicated, but those details, along with a full reveal of all the card images, will be at booth #976. The card designs were inspired by baseball cards of the early 1900’s and are authorized by Lucasfilm Ltd. There are only 300 complete sets being given away, only at Celebration, so they won’t be around for long.

The club will also be selling its sixth biannual charity pin at Celebration. This Lucasfilm-approved full-color cloisonné lapel pin features Commander Cody holding a holographic Washington Monument. Each $10 pin is individually numbered and all proceeds benefit the Children’s Inn at National Institutes of Health.

DCSWCC is one of the largest and most active Star Wars collecting clubs in America, with over 30 members. The club meets monthly and holds special events throughout the year such as socials, picnics, and “Roadshow” appraisal events. For more information, visit the club website at http://www.dcswcc.org

Are you attending Star Wars Celebration Anaheim? If so you can pre-order this exclusive Star Wars art for a limited time.

Legendary sci-fi illustrator Joe Corroney and Hi-Fi’s own Brian Miller were chosen to create two new illustrations for the Star Wars Celebration art show. Lucasfilm is making a limited number of prints available exclusively to Celebration attendees. To ensure you get these two prints you will need to pre-order in advance. The way it works is simple.

On Thursday April 2nd at 10AM PST, Kotobukiya will have the Star Wars Celebration Two-Pack ARTFX+ featuring R3-A2 & K-3PO available to pre-order for non-attendees. This extremely limited, one-time production will only be available for purchase at SW Celebration (April 16-19) and through kotous.com while supplies last.

Final Fantasy publisher Square Enix is taking on yet another major media franchise for its line of “Play Arts” figures. Square Enix and Lucasfilm have revealed new Darth Vader, Boba Fett, and Stormtrooper Star Wars figures designed by the Japanese game publisher. They look quite epic, I must say.As reported by ToyArk, the toys will go on sale this July priced priced at ¥12,000 (about $100 USD) each.

As you can see in the images in the gallery below, the Boba Fett toy is amazingly detailed, featuring a pistol, knives, flamethrower effect, and more. The new Stormtrooper figure, meanwhile, comes with interchangeale hands, a blaster, and a menacing look to stare you down if you decide to keep it on your desk.

You’ll also find in the gallery below some new images of the previously announced, badass-looking Darth Vader figure.

Star Wars is not the first entertainment franchise Square Enix has reimagined. Earlier this year, we got a look at Iron Man, as designed by Square Enix. And in 2014, Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts designer Tetsuya Nomura created rather epic-looking versions of Batman and Catwoman.

I’m excited to announce that two new D-Tech Me figurines – a Jedi Knight and a TIE-Fighter pilot – are premiering at Star Wars Weekends at Disney’s Hollywood Studios this year.

First introduced in May 2012, Star Wars – D-Tech Me is a 10-minute experience that uses the world’s highest-resolution, single-shot 3D face scanner created by Imagineering scientists with Disney Research labs. The captured image is later sent to a high resolution 3D printer to create the figurine. This year, the experience will be located inside Darth’s Mall, near Streets of America across from Studio Catering.

In addition to the new figurines, we will again offer the Carbon-Freeze Me figurine, Alderaan Princess figurine, and male and female options for Stormtrooper (http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2013/05/star-wars-d-tech-me-experience-returns-to-star-wars-weekends-at-disneys-hollywood-studios-starting-may-17-2013/) and X-Wing pilot figurines.

For children, the Carbon-Freeze Me and Alderaan Princess figurines will be available in more youthful appearances.

We finally have Sideshow Collectibles Commander Luke Skywalker in Hoth Gear. His amazing screen accurate appearance is uncanny. Now we can relive the moments in “The Empire Strikes Back”. Seeing how Mark Hamill realism into this amazing and well done 1/6 scale figure will blow your minds. Commander Luke Skywalker’s box is held by a magnet which you can flip the cover to reveal Luke and his accessories.

Luke Skywalker comes with 3 heads (The regular version comes with 2). The first head comes with headgear and fabric scarf and is really well sculpted, it catches his likeliness. The paint app on the skin is slightly dark, while on film he was lighter. The wash on his eyes captures the realism. The regular head has a sculpted hair and features a lot of his facial likeliness while missing his pre-scar from his accident.

The exclusive head is the ‘Wampa Attack’ with damaged headgear and fabric scarf which is well capture, again his skin paint app is slightly darker. Commander Skywaker’s cold-weather fatigues are most impressive, the detailing and stitching are phenomenal. His pants are not exactly a fit but slightly loose, thou its needed for articulation. The belts with buckles are detailed and his holsters comes with magnetic straps.

His sleeves has working pockets and details logo on his right side. His vest is slightly off color. Skywalker comes with the Prometheus body, DK-44 Blaster (Luke Version), Binoculars with fabric strap, Two part sculpted boots, Right trigger hand, Right c-grip hand, Right large c-grip hand, Right reach hand, Left fist, Left c-grip hand, Left large c-grip hand and Left reach hand. Ignited lightsaber and lightsaber hilt. A black support base with detachable hoth scene. Overall, the Collectibles Commander Luke Skywalker in Hoth Gear is well worth the buy and highly recommendeded.

You can order him at this link while supplies last. photos courtesy of Brandon J.